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have sold up to 21s. 6d. per barrel, which it must 

 be admitted is verj- encouraging. 



From Boston the most appreciated variety has 

 been the Ramsbom, which, owing to its good 

 color, met with good enquiry, at prices ranging 

 from IIS. to 14s. gd, though other varieties where 

 at all good have also met a ready outlet, Bald- 

 wins making from 6s. to us. 8d., and Hubbard- 

 stons los. to 13s 3d. j>er barrel. 



Canada has sent some good Gravensteins and 

 Colverts, the former of which sold from i6s. to 

 to 19s. 6d, and the latter i is to 14s. 6d — both very 

 creditable results — but more surprising still, 

 perhaps, are the prices paid for Greenings, which 

 sold yesterday from 12s. to 14s. 6d. per barrel. 



From these results it will be seen that although 

 English apples are plentiful, there is at all events 

 an outlet for fruit from your side, in fact, as we 

 have already pointed out, American and Cana- 

 dian varieties when of good quality and attractive 

 appearance, alwaj-s command attention no matter 

 how plentiful the home crop may be, and from 

 present aspects the outlook is much more favor- 

 able than it appeared to be at the beginning of 

 last month when we issued our prospective report. 

 Of course great care will have to be exercised in 

 the selecting and packing of fruit for export, but 

 in the interest of all operators, and especially 

 those who experienced losses last year, we trust 

 the season after all may not prove altogether 

 unremunerative. 



Messrs. Garcia, Jacobs & Co., London, 



cable : 



Our market is now ready for some of those 

 good Canadians. English fruit is not of as good 

 quality as it promised to be earlier in the season. 

 We look for an active demand at fair prices, so 

 long as receipts are not too large. While the 

 above prices are accurate market quotations, 

 shippers will do well not to expect a continuance 

 of these high figures after the present exports are 

 very materially increased. 



Messrs. Simons, Jacobs & Co., Glasgow, 

 cable the following^ quotations for good 

 sojnd apples under date of October 5th : 



Baldwins. Spies, Spitz. Cranberry Pippins, 

 Gol verts, ruled from 13s. to 15s. 6d. ; Kingfs, i8s. 

 to 23s. : Greenings, 14s to 17s. ; Ribstons, 12s. 

 to 14c. ; Gravensteins, 19s. to 19s. ; Jeneting^, 

 lis. to 14s. A few extra fancy apples made a 

 little more money. Common grades and fruit 

 out of condition ruled from 2s. to 4s. below the 

 lowest quotations. The demand is very active 

 for good well-packed fruit. 



The quality of the Canadian apples this year 



thus far has been so good that notwithstanding 

 large supplies of English and continental fruits, 

 early Canadian apples have met with an extra- 

 ordinary demand. 



Mr. W. N. White, auctioneer for Messrs. 

 Dennis & Sons, write : 



England. France, Germany, Holland, Belgium 

 and Italy have the largest crops in my recol- 

 lection. 



English crops, being so large, lack qualtity ; 

 present prices are very low, the lowest I have 

 ever known, and all kinds of cooking fruit must 

 be very cheap all the season. Good dessert 

 apples are not so plentiful, and any pretty colored 

 stock at a moderate price should sell freely, pro- 

 vided the supplies are not too large. Prices, of 

 course, must depend on the supplies, and if you 

 send us as many as you did in 1896, you will not 

 even get 1896 prices. England only wants jour 

 best colored fruit ; small green, or any poor 

 stock, must on no account be sent. Consignors 

 must not forget that the charges of freight and 

 expenses are the same on a barrel of rubbish as 

 on a barrel of best selected fruit. 



I notice in some of your papers that, because a 

 few samples were sold at the Exposition in Paris 

 at fair rates, some folk think there will be a 

 market in France. Such is not the case ; she has 

 the largest crop for years, all very healthy, and 

 she cannot find a pajang market. I dare main- 

 tain that apples consigned to France would not 

 make freight and expenses. 



Germany has enough apples for cooking pur- 

 poses to last her till mid-summer, 1901. She will 

 only want a short supplj' of red fruit, certainly 

 not so much as in 1896. Do not be misled by 

 those who have their own special " axe to grind." 



Italy has an abundant crop, and will exj>ort a 

 large quantity of good apples to Germany ; no 

 other market is open to her this year. 



Messrs. Dickhuth & Sohn, Hamburg, 

 write : 



In regard to the prospects for the sale of apples 

 from your country in our market, we can repeat 

 that we expect a ready sale for the first grade red 

 keeping winter fruit, but for this first g^ade only. 



We have a very large home crop of apples, 

 which are of inferior quality compared with your 

 best stock, and this will enable us to sell your 

 best stock all right, but for seconds we shall have 

 no demand whatever. 



The apples you ship must be of first grade all 

 through the barrel. 



Do not begin shipments before the second part 

 of October. 



